Table 6. Multivariate analysis of characteristics associated with disengagement from care and willingness to re-engage into LUTH HIV treatment program among 268 traced and interviewed LTFU patients.

	Disengaged from carea c (N = 268)				Willingness to re-engageb d (N = 268)
Characteristics	COR (95% CI)	p-value	AOR (95% CI)	p-value	COR (95% CI)	p-value	AOR (95% CI)	p-value
Age (per 10 years)	0.30(0.07–1.27)	0.103	0.11(0.09–1.33)	0.083	0.28(0.07–1.12)	0.073	0.43(0.70–2.61)	0.357
Sex
Female	Ref		Ref		Ref		Ref
Male	1.88(1.10–3.23)	0.021	1.49(0.80–2.79)	0.208	2.40(1.40–4.10)	0.001	1.91(1.05–3.45)	0.033
Marital status
Married	Ref		Ref		Ref		Ref
Single	1.72(0.82–3.63)	0.153	2.29(0.99–5.28)	0.052	0.80(0.41–1.56)	0.510	1.05(0.48–2.26)	0.907
Divorced/Separated/Widowed	0.85(0.40–1.78)	0.658	0.80(0.37–1.71)	0.559	1.02(0.48–2.16)	0.955	1.23(0.58–2.62)	0.594
Education
None	Ref		Ref		Ref		Ref
Primary	0.27(0.03–2.52)	0.253	0.25(0.03–2.26)	0.217	0.83(0.14–4.93)	0.841	0.57(0.08–4.26)	0.583
Secondary	0.38(0.04–3.23)	0.373	0.42(0.05–3.47)	0.419	0.66(0.12–3.53)	0.625	0.58(0.09–3.94)	0.581
Tertiary	0.22(0.23–1.88)	0.166	0.25(0.03–2.10)	0.203	0.48(0.09–2.61)	0.396	0.45(0.07–3.06)	0.417
ART initiation
Started on ART	Ref				Ref		Ref
Not started on ART	4.26(2.06–8.83)	<0.001	4.42(2.13–9.15)	<0.001	3.20(1.67–6.13)	<0.001	3.56(1.77–7.16)	<0.001
Months in care before LTFU (per 3 months)	1.00(1.00–1.00	0.929	1.00(1.00–1.00)	0.810	2.00(1.33–2.99)	0.001	2.14(1.36–3.36)	0.001

COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio; Ref: Reference categories

Reference categories:

^aRetained in care

^bNot willing to re-engage in program

Box-Tidwell tests before transformation—age vs. disengagement from care (p = 0.494, linear relationship); months in care vs. disengagement from care (p = 0.026, non-linear relationship); age vs. willingness to re-engage (p = 0.360, linear relationship); months in care vs. willingness to re-engage (p = 0.832, linear relationship)

Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test:

^cp = 0.625;

^dp = 0.326